[mythtv] Slightly OT: MythTV as Senior Project?

[Louie Ilievski]

Hi everyone.  I have been an avid MythTV user for over 6 months now and
I love it.  I also have wanted to get involved in some development for
it.  My friend and I are seniors at the University of California,
Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for
our senior project.  However, this is supposed to be a "compilers"
class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it
is somewhat compiler related.  More specifically, I imagine he is going
to want to see some scanning and parsing going on in our code at the
very minimum.  He definitely considers web pages compiler related, so it
seems he's pretty lenient, and doesn't want us to strictly re-write gcc  :-)

We are looking for potential ideas we can propose to him for a project.
If we can get him to approve something related to MythTV, we would be
very excited.  Do any of you have any ideas for features we could
implement that would require some "compiler related" code?

I know this is being somewhat worked on, but I just thought of the
possibility of getting VBI working with MythTV for the PVR350 and 250
(or I guess ivtv in general).  I believe the VBI code is actually
working in the  ivtv driver, but just not in MythTV yet.  Am I correct?
I just remembered that an experimental patch just went in on March 1 so
this idea may be scrapped.

Anyhow, any and all ideas would be greatly appreciated.  If we can pull
this one off then we would be able to code for something we're actually
interested in, while at the same time helping out the project.  And of
course, we could both possibly learn a thing or two from the plentiful
criticism shot out by Isaac and the other devs.  :-)

Thanks,

Louie Ilievski


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